Global Gas & LNG Insights Podcast: The Present and Future of Russian LNG
How much LNG is Russia exporting? Where is this LNG going? What different scenarios exist for supply, demand and price fluctuations? Will Arctic LNG-2 succeed despite U.S. sanctions? How will Russia utilize the Northern Sea Route and to what effect? All of these questions and more are covered in the inaugural episode of Global Gas […]
Geopolitics and the Role of Gas in the Energy Transition
What would happen to the natural gas and LNG markets should the major canals and straits be blocked? Will natural gas on the North Slope ever happen? And for that matter, how about Arctic LNG? These are just some of the many topics covered in the enlightening and insightful podcast with Armando Cavanha, industry veteran. […]
2023 User Conference Recap
All Roads Lead to Galveston As Gas Market Experts Come Together With Texas’ best November weather, RBAC’s Annual Gas and User Conference took place in Galveston, Texas last week. It was a great follow up and success to last year’s1 in Austin. Everyone was happy to see colleagues and energy industry leaders from across the […]
African Energy Resources Must Benefit Africa
Africa Energy Week was huge. With thousands of attendees at the 5-day event, and multiple concurrent sessions, here are some takeaways from the continent which is the size of the U.S., Europe and China combined, and which is blessed with abundant oil, natural gas, and minerals. Strong Words When African leaders took the stage at […]
LNG2023 Conference Takeaways
Dr. Brooks speaking at the LNG2023 Conference. Source: Club LNG Twitter RBAC’s founder and CEO, Dr. Robert Brooks PhD, and our Director of Business Development, James Brooks, recently attended the LNG2023 conference in Vancouver. Dr. Brooks presented Europe’s options for making up the loss of natural gas imports from Russia using G2M2® Market Simulator for […]
Has Europe Moved Past Needing Russian Gas?
Europe’s Energy Crisis Back in May 2021, and like most countries, EU was on recovery, post-COVID, importing ~3 bcm of Russian natural gas a week from the various pipelines, and on May 19, 2021, the US announced it would remove sanctions on Nord Stream 2, and Russia was eager to open the taps, completing the […]
Potential Alaska Natural Gas Shortage in 2027
Cook Inlet Gas Production May Not Meet Demand In a recent report by Enstar Natural Gas for the regulatory commission of Alaska, it was revealed that the energy-rich state may soon be faced with an energy crisis of its own. “Cook Inlet gas cannot fully meet demand forecast beyond 2026 with current proved reserves or […]
RBAC Attending LNG 2023 World Conference in Vancouver
We are happy to announce that we will be attending the LNG 2023 World Conference this coming July! Dr. Robert Brooks will be discussing a variety of topics relating to global gas and LNG markets and how market simulation can help you keep track of all that happens. In particular be on the lookout for […]
Using Models Specifically for Trading
Natural Gas Market Analytics in Trading Most trading-based analytics focus on supply-demand balance assessments to determine whether the current market is loose or tight versus some historical perspective – e.g., prior year, 5-year average, etc. At a high level, these assessments can prove useful in developing profitable trading strategies, but they often miss regional (or […]
Unlocking Profitable Trading Opportunities: The Power of Granular Market Models
In the world of natural gas trading, savvy traders look out for and attempt to get on the right side of basis blowouts. Basis trading is a trading strategy built around the difference between the spot price of a commodity and the price of a futures contract for that same commodity. If a trader expects […]
